A group of security analysts who have evaluated Defense Department plans for an online voting pilot have recommended that the plan be scrapped because its security cannot be ensured. But DoD plans to move ahead anyway.
A team of companies led by a Lockheed Martin Corp. subsidiary is building a tool to help the intelligence community keep tabs on the spooks behind its firewalls.
The Defense Department is preparing for a pilot of an identity management system that will allow authentication of credentials across multiple agencies and vendors.
The General Services Administration has placed Verizon Federal Inc. of Washington on two contracts that let the company compete for $330 million worth of federal telecommunications business from Philadelphia to Richmond, Va.
A lack of money and coordination at the state and local levels is delaying implementation of Enhanced 911 emergency service for cellular phones, according to a new report.
Microsoft Corp. today announced rewards of $250,000 each for the arrest of the writers of the SoBig and Blaster worms that attacked millions of computers running the company's Windows operating systems earlier this year.
The exchange of information between the Defense and Homeland Security departments is essential to national security, but the departments still are struggling to share information within their organizations, government officials said Oct. 22 at the Federal Information Assurance Conference at the University of Maryland in College Park.
New worms are becoming more efficient and the window between exposure of a vulnerability and the appearance of an exploit is shrinking, according a new Internet security report.
A report released today by a team of cybersecurity professionals condemns the ubiquity of Microsoft Corp. software as inherently insecure and called for government to break the software giant's dominant grip on the market.
Computer security, intelligent data searching and a personal wireless service were among 16 projects that received funding recently from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program.
Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm today demonstrated a new high-speed wireless Internet service set to be rolled out in Washington and San Diego this fall.
Cybersecurity regulation that will affect the private sector is on the way this year, a congressman said today. And the Business Software Alliance opposes mandates.
The referral of a negative report by the General Services Administration's inspector general earlier this month has initiated suspension proceedings against troubled telecom company WorldCom Inc.
